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ZACHARY DERREK CAMILLE ANDREW MELANIE ANDREW VALERIE
LENOX STARK ORTIZ POTTER SPECTOR BISANTZ RACHELLE
Papageno Tamino Pamina Sarastro Queen of the Night Artistic Director Director
& Conductor
NEW ZONE STAYS VIBRANT
fidence that our brilliance as a species
Last week’s visual arts story by Es- will certainly find a way to kill us all off.
ter Barkai, “A Glass Half Full: Eugene Mother Earth will simply shrug and wait
and Springfield art venues look for op- for the next infestation.
portunities in uncertain times,” left out Rene Tihista
the successes of the New Zone Gallery. Springfield
For over the past 20 months, the gal-
KRISTOF’S DOMICILE THE
lery has thrived with the cup brimming
IS NOT HIS RESIDENCE
full of excitement with ongoing and vi-
brant shows, well attended First Friday The Oregon Secretary of State’s office
openings, and a new beautiful location recently confirmed that Nicholas Kristof
dedicated for bringing the arts alive to will not have been a resident of Oregon for MAGIC
downtown Eugene. three years prior to May 2022, as required
We are also open every day of the by our state Constitution. He is therefore
week for the public to visit at their con- ineligible to run for governor.
venience. Also, we want to thank St. Residency requires the physical pres-
Vincent de Paul for giving us a lease for ence of the person in the state. A person FLUTE
the first time in our 38-year history in can own property in three states but can
the beautiful Aurora Building located at only reside in one of them at any given
110 E. 11th Avenue, and the arts commu- time. For instance, in Nevada a person
nity for their continued support during can become a resident and file for a di-
these unprecedented times. vorce by actually living in the state for
Steve La Riccia six weeks before filing.
FRIDAY, JAN 28, 2022 | 7:30 PM
New Zone Gallery Coordinator Kristof clearly has not lived in Oregon
for three years prior to our May election. SUNDAY, JAN 30, 2022 | 2:30 PM
HUMANITY IS
He has been admittedly working and liv-
KILLING THE EARTH Silva Concert Hall | Hult Center, Eugene
ing in New York. (Oregon does allow for
I applaud Ramona Wise’s letter of Jan. at least one exception to the continued Sung in German with English dialogue and English supertitles
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cused by a former high school classmate Kristof argues that his intent mat-
when we were both grandparent age, that ters in that he has always considered
SPECIALTY GROCERY
my not having children proved I was “self- Oregon his true home. Kristof’s intent is
ish.” My classmate insisted that I was put irrelevant to the question of residency.
on this Earth to procreate. Domicile, however, considers intent and
“That’s your purpose for living,” he is where a person’s true, fixed and per-
insisted vehemently. My response was manent home, to where he will return af-
to point out that since his children were ter residing somewhere else, is located.
all grown and on their own, by his logic, Our Constitution requires that Kristof
he no longer had a purpose for living, so actually live in the state for three years
why didn’t he commit suicide? Of course prior to the election, not just claim Or-
he disagreed with my view but offered egon as his home. Kristof’s domicile is
no cogent rebuttal other than repeating not his residence. The secretary of state
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I don't think we'll ever know how This is a state with a very diverse set of zens. He is a hard working, community- of all life on this small blue planet.
many complaints they received for the lifestyles, occupations and opinions. oriented kind of guy, having devoted Is it too late to understand how pre-
police to issue a tweet, but we hope the In governing Oregon we need someone many years of volunteer service to help carious this life on Earth really is? We
chuckles outnumbered the fainting who will listen to the varied and individ- make Oregon a great place to live. are still here, so it is not. But in our glob-
gasps (or do we?). ualistic voices of its citizens, those who Starnes is the right choice for this al crisis in a deadly pandemic, as well as
Ryan Eastman live and work here. Not those who sim- state. the life-taking storms of climate change,
Eugene ply want to capitalize on its resources or LuAnn Harmon we must act wisely and quickly. These
inhabitants, who have nothing emotion- Westfir threats to our lives could unite us just
Editor’s note: Alas, the Eugene Police Log on
Twitter is not an official EPD account. But it is, not ally invested in being an Oregonian. enough to respond with intelligent ac-
unlike the snow penis, entertaining. Campaign reform — prioritizing the IT’S THE MOMENT TO DECIDE tion. It is up to us. Or we could continue
short and long-term interests of Or- In the U.S. we have had the freedom to be blinded by self-importance and
OREGON NEEDS
egon — is just one of the reasons I sup- to abuse freedom, and we have. Even the god of money.
PATRICK STARNES
port Patrick Starnes. I have personally though we have helped win two world Which will it be? Survival of the natu-
As a born and raised, multi-genera- known him for decades. He is all about wars fighting for human liberty, after ral world, or survival of the lies of ego? It
tion, native Oregonian, it is important to Oregon, a man of intelligence, integrity winning the wars, we have nurtured the really is up to us.
choose someone to govern the state who and empathy towards the needs and gluttony of wealth instead — instead of Deb Huntley
represents the interests of Oregonians. direction of the state and its varied citi- the awareness of human life, awareness Eugene
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VIEWPOINT BY ROBERT EMMONS
The Failure of COP26
the planet’s second largest population.
Yet at the 2021 Glasgow climate conference, India
THE 2021 CLIMATE CONFERENCE IN GLASGOW demanded — and received — a last minute change in the
final climate agreement from a “phase out” to a “phase
IGNORED OVERPOPULATION
down” of coal power.
As of this writing, massive amounts of consumer goods
A
s the November climate conference nations (America chief among them) consume a majority are stacked in ports (and accumulating fees) with too few
in Glasgow sought agreement among of the world’s resources, most of which are controlled to load them onto ships waiting offshore or onto trucks
nations to reduce the amount of carbon and enjoyed by a small percentage of their consumers. and rail onshore. Blame for this distribution failure has
and methane in the atmosphere and Moreover, developing countries, which consume far less, ranged from the pandemic, to accounting errors, to old-
in the oceans, conspicuously missing are suffering most from the catastrophic impacts of those fashioned greed, but what impresses is the monumental
from their assortment of human enjoying a grosser domestic product. amount of stuff that has required precious material and
created catastrophes — drought, Clearly, the population-consumption argument isn’t energy resources to manufacture. And all of it wanting
fires, floods, ocean acidification, melting ice, thawing either/or but both/and. However, as the “tragedy of the dispersal to untold numbers of customers.
permafrost, famine, etc.— was the root cause of all of commons” demonstrates, land has a carrying capacity While our numbers have increased and economies have
them: overpopulation. whose quantity and quality erode according to the grown beyond local to global scales to serve them, what
Also missing from this charade of empty promises and numbers and scale of the creatures dependent on it. The was economical and in sync with the local commons and
futile projections was China, a country with the world's pursuit of infinite growth on a finite planet has been an its natural ecology has morphed into Economy, whose
largest population and one of the top CO2 producers. ecological, economical and ethical disaster. functions and effects have become alien and diffuse
Any mention of the exponential number of us on the In 1968, when Garrett Hardin introduced the “tragedy and little understood, much less controlled, by those
planet consistently gets a pass from city councils and of the commons” paradigm, the world population was it ostensibly purports to serve. Economy has become
county commissions, from state and federal legislators, 3.5 billion. In 2021, only half a century later, there are king with a decidedly autonomous and autocratic bent,
from politicians of every stripe. Even environmental law 7.9 billion people on earth and counting. It took 2 million and the natural environment and its inhabitants mere
conferences are gun-shy, largely because any talk of control years of human history and prehistory to reach 1 billion vassals subject to its dictates and whims.
and reduction is predictably met by accusations of racism, people and only 200 years to reach 7.9 billion. For many the way out of the trap set by the industrial
ethnocentrism, elitism, authoritarianism, sexism and Even if we eliminate economic inequities and reduce revolution and mass production is another revolution,
sacrilege. Lower birth rates have been a cause for alarm, consumption, too many bodies remain needing and with renewables and “clean” energy leading the charge —
for economies predicated on endless and inequitable breeding and too little land and clean air and water to or the colonization of Mars or some other hapless planet
growth depend on a reliable spawn of workers to fuel support them. The pollution problem ultimately is a boosted by a Musk or a Bezos. Yet why believe that what
their superchargers and falter with too many retirees population problem, as Hardin has noted: “It didn’t much precipitated an exponential increase of our species will
living too long and feeding at the public trough. matter how a lonely frontiersman disposed of his waste. somehow rescue us from its cataclysmic consequences?
And so we continue to teem like maggots and feed off But as the population became denser, the natural chemical Glasgow’s focus on carbon and methane merely
carrion of our own making. Cities have nowhere to go but and biological recycling processes became overloaded.” continued a chronic distraction from facing the real
up, hogging the sun from those in the shadows. Or they Already, even as we continue and accelerate our enemy: ourselves, the inordinate and insupportable
expand beyond their boundaries where weak, corrupt or untenable numbers, lifestyles and practices, many places number of us breeding and consuming too much for the
non-existent land use regulation — little by little, lot by are becoming uninhabitable and the world a melting planet to bear. Such conferences will highlight the futility
lot — helps transform forests, farms, natural areas and pot of refugees with fewer places to run to. Suffocating of empty and unenforceable goals and commitments
open space into lucrative real estate enterprises for ever on air fouled by coal burning, as it has perennially in until they ignore the isms, eschew business as usual and
more customers, many of them refugees from some other late fall, New Delhi is again facing an entire lockdown of recognize the primary importance and environmental
wasted and risky habitat suffering the same degradation. operations, closing schools and businesses. Urban areas toll of human numbers and scale.
Shy of falling into the ism trap, many liberal thinkers across the country are facing the same conditions from Until then it’s just more “Blah, blah, blah,” as Greta
object that it’s not overpopulation but overconsumption ineffective control of industrial pollution, coal burning, Thunberg aptly declared — outside the convention doors. ■
that’s responsible for most of our ills. To be sure, developed car exhausts and the relentless needs of a country with
Robert Emmons is president of LandWatch Lane County.
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Skipping the Basics
soon. “We want to make sure they deserve it first. What
that leads to is this whole bureaucratic nightmare where
people have to stand in line and jump through hoops and
what that ends up with is people with welfare don’t get it.”
OREGON HAS A CONSIDERABLE LOW INCOME AND UNHOUSED He adds: “We’re asking people to jump through hoops
when they’re desperate. Why not hand out the money
POPULATION, SO WHY ISN’T IT EXPERIMENTING WITH UNIVERSAL
first and claw it back from the people who didn’t need it?”
BASIC INCOME PILOT PROGRAMS LIKE THE REST OF THE U.S.? Shaw, a staunch believer that UBI could in fact be our
nation’s future, is employing the many hesitancies as an
By Shane Hoffmann opportunity to inform and educate on both basic and guar-
anteed income programs as well as financial literacy itself.
He wants people to know what they are talking about,
T
he idea of government-financed univer- of residence. A monthly check, large enough to cover to know what these programs would mean for them, and
sal basic income (UBI) and guaranteed basic needs. to know their options and the economic levers at their
incomes (GI) programs is gaining popu- Guaranteed income on the other hand is not univer- disposal, empowering individuals to begin making their
larity across the nation. sal, rather meant to be tied to income. If you are below a own judgements about what’s politically feasible.
Recently popularized by Andrew certain income threshold, you'll be funded. A UBI calculator developed with Eugene-based Twenty
Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign, “Poverty is destabilizing to the point where it’s difficult Ideas CEO Mike Biglan could be one way to educate the
magnified through the financial turmoil to apply for a job, get to a job, sustain a job,” says Janet public. The free website allows users to compare and
of the COVID-19 pandemic and led in large part by Mayors Bauer, a senior policy analyst at the Oregon Center for contrast UBI plans proposed by different individuals and
for Guaranteed Income (MGI) — an organization hoping Public Policy. groups, learn how each would affect themselves and other
to sift out what sectors of the population guaranteed Cash injections during the pandemic showcased the Americans and dive into the intricacies of how each is funded.
income works best for — a series of trials and start-ups seeds of potential UBI expansion in the future. As low- The calculator is an educational tool for those wishing
are underway. wage jobs make living harder, the labor market must to learn more about the policy, although Shaw recognizes
Programs have turned up in more than a dozen states adjust. UBI could help account for that deficit. that the hypothetical models can only go so far.
around the nation, accounting for 62 total start-ups. The “I certainly see [guaranteed income policies] as having “It has to be experienced by a lot of people,” Shaw says
West Coast accounts for a third of the trials with 18 in a lot of promise for addressing the dysfunctions of the of UBI/GI programs. “It can’t just be something where we
California and two in Washington. But Oregon, a state way our current labor market works and who has access point to data. It has to be something that people have felt.”
filled with pockets of the unhoused or low-income popu- to jobs,” Bauer says. That’s what Mayors for Guaranteed Income is trying
lation like Eugene, which seemingly fits the UBI billing That stabilizing potential could work well in a city like to solve. Its expansive network of start-ups, both past
perfectly, has yet to make a move towards one of these Eugene, potentially helping meet the needs of the unhoused and present, is helping answer the question of who these
programs. The state’s hesitancy provides a deeper look community. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 20.4 programs work best for, and in what ways.
into the trepidation of many Americans. percent of Eugene’s population lived in poverty in 2019. The group’s executive director, Sukhi Samra, says that
“It’s a little bit the cart before the horse,” Eugene Mayor Yet it’s in that hypothetical installation where the the next 12 months will be crucial as the organization uses
Lucy Vinis tells Eugene Weekly. “We’re really not ready drawbacks introduce themselves. data and results to start pushing towards a more perma-
for this. I don’t think it’s the battle to fight.” Mike Kuhn, an associate professor at the University nent policy at the state or nation-wide level.
Oregon could just be late to the party, but the state’s of Oregon Department of Economics, identified three Like many others, she cited budgetary logistics as the
lack of programs speaks to the greater drawbacks of UBI potential — and frequently mentioned — drawbacks of a chief roadblock. “The kind of political fight that would
and illustrates why a true citywide program has yet to proposed UBI program and possible reasons for its lack of rise around it would be pretty substantial,” Kuhn says.
come to fruition, even if targeted basic income programs presence in Oregon: negative employment effects, fund- That could explain Oregon’s lack of a roll-out. How
could serve as an outlet to simplify welfare infrastructure ing a potential program and ensuring the money reaches would it function? What would a roll-out look like? What
in the near future. the demographics who stand to gain the most. sector of society gets the nod? Many people don’t have
The idea of a basic income in its elegance and simplic- Kuhn says he believes it’s the final drawback that bank accounts, so could it work on credit cards? Checks?
ity has caught the eye of many, but remains riddled with merits the most attention as a significant juncture and Perhaps infrastructure is the starting point.
skepticism. could inhibit more widespread programs in the future. “A part of me wonders if guaranteed income is the
Basic income programs, as well as guaranteed income The government has illustrated that getting money starting point,” Vinis says. “Because I just don’t think
programs are financial pick-me-ups. They have the propen- to those with bank accounts or permanent addresses these other pieces are in place. I’m just not convinced,
sity to assist individuals in avoiding a compounding is feasible via pandemic unemployment and stimulus but that’s to study, to learn and to see.”
economic downfall. checks. What happens when you have neither? It’s one Hesitancy clouds the potential of a true, genuine UBI
They are a federal gift of sorts, designed to lift people of the biggest pitfalls when imagining a truly functional program both locally and abroad. Politically, many view it
off the ground and provide a floor. The programs aren’t guaranteed income plan in a city such as Eugene, whose as a non-starter. Not necessarily as simple as the version
a substitute for a full-time job, but rather a fund for unhoused rates are among the nation’s highest. displayed on paper. But if the COVID-19 pandemic has
basic necessities: money for a new set of clothes for a “It certainly could happen in Eugene but of course shown anything, it’s that welfare programs can be effec-
job interview; money to fix the broken down car inhibit- it’s a matter of political will and parity,” Bauer says. “But tive when executed correctly and equitably, entrusting
ing local transportation; money to pay off the utilities I think that Eugene seems like it has some potential to citizens with the kind of agency that can calm fears of
bill for the month, freeing up grocery funds in a tight have that conversation. It has every reason.” wasted money and laziness.
financial month. The “universal” tagline has led to consternation itself. These programs may warrant a gamble. ■
“I'm interested in any system or systemic changes that UBI isn’t a universal “extra” or “bonus” income. Individu-
For more information, check out MayorsforAGI.org and UBICalculator.com.
allow people to control their own destiny in an effective als taking part would also chip in more in taxes. This story was developed as part of the Catalyst Journalism Project at the
and successful way,” Vinis says. “Not just surviving in “The history of policy in the U.S. is to try to target University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. Catalyst
brings together investigative reporting and solutions journalism to spark
poverty, but actually some prospect of thriving.” the money in advance,” says Conrad Shaw, a UBI writer,
action and response to Oregon’s most perplexing issues. To learn more
UBI as a theory entails a set sum of money going to researcher and co-creator of a docu-series titled Bootstraps visit Journalism.UOregon.edu/Catalyst or follow the project on Twitter @
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slant • If you like to our own Sen. Floyd Prozanski could move into that he doesn’t meet the state Constitution’s
watch Rick Steves the powerful Senate president spot? We'll see. three-year residency requirement for office.
on OPB Saturday While the state Supreme Court considers his
nights as we do, • University of Oregon President Michael lawsuit seeking to be allowed to run, even though
you probably were Schill will discuss “Lessons from the Pandemic: he voted as a New Yorker in 2020, we’ve been
surprised, as we were, when he devoted an entire UO's Impact on the Next Normal” at noon wondering what he might do with all that money
half-hour segment on Jan. 8 to the rise of Adolf Friday, Jan. 14, at the City Club of Eugene’s weekly should he lose in court. Kristof has made his repu-
Hitler and fascism in Germany. That was quite forum at First United Methodist Church, 1376 tation by writing about the poor and oppressed
a switch from his usual cheerful travel talks. A Olive Street. Proof of vaccination and booster around the world. What if he donated all $2.5
cautionary tale, perhaps. required; mask must be worn to attend in person. million to an Oregon charity helping the homeless?
No lunch provided and seating is limited. You can St. Vincent de Paul comes to mind, though many
• Speaking of what we’re watching: Check out also participate virtually: Go to CityClubofEu- others also deserve help. That would be a more
Gentefied on Netflix. The series follows three gene.org to sign up to ask a question via Zoom graceful move than his insistence that Fagan’s
cousins and their grandfather, Casimiro “Pop” and City Club’s Facebook page to watch the live common-sense decision was politically motivated.
Morales, as they struggle to keep open the family’s stream. Schill will give an update on the UO where
taqueria in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, and keep in-person instruction and activities successfully • If you’re looking for ways to remember Betty
the feds from deporting Pop. The dramedy is in resumed this fall. White that go past rewatching Golden Girls and
English and Spanish, and our one pet peeve is that The Mary Tyler Moore Show, consider joining
the creative and prolific use of curses in Spanish the Betty White Challenge, a call for people to
is not that well reflected in the English subtitles. donate to animal shelters on her birthday, Jan. 17.
The show’s co-creators, Marvin Lemus and Linda Lane County has several to choose from: Greenhill
Yvette Chávez, are first generation Chicanos, and Humane Society, Northwest Dog Project, SARA’s
the writing and storyline reflects that, making the Treasures and Oregon Coast Humane Society in
two-season series about the Morales family sadly Florence — to name a few.
realistic while fun and wonderful.
• The holidays are over but the cold weather is
• Big changes are ahead for leadership of the not. Thank you to all the folks who have dropped off
Oregon Legislature. House Speaker Tina Kotek warm clothing, gloves, tarps, tents and anything
is resigning from the Legislature to run for gover- else our unhoused neighbors need to stay dry and
nor. We hear the names being tossed around to warm. Our third pickup truck load of items
fill that speaker position are, possibly, local Rep. NICHOLAS KRISTOF for White Bird Clinic’s “Drive to Stay Warm”
Julie Fahey, and more firmly, Reps. Janelle Bynum is about to get taken directly to those who
and Dan Rayfield. Kotek steps down Jan. 21 as • Follow the money: Nicholas Kristof has need it by White Bird. We are still accepting
the longest-tenured speaker in Oregon legisla- collected $2.5 million for his gubernatorial donations at Eugene Weekly’s 1251 Lincoln Street
tive history. Senate President Peter Courtney campaign, which is now on hold after Oregon office. Thank you, to all you wonderful community
has announced that he will not run again. Maybe Secretary of State Shemia Fagan ruled Jan. 6 members who have dropped off items!
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Trash to
and it’s the second-largest stationary source in the whole alent to taking about 86,000 passenger vehicles off the
country, second behind International Paper,” he adds. road for a year.
Hurley says a material recovery facility could locate But Laura Feinstein, a fellow at the Seattle-based envi-
Treasure recyclable materials among the waste that ends up at the ronmental think tank Sightline Institute, says she has
landfill. The facility could expand recycling capabilities some reservations about methane-converted natural
and result in spinoff industries, he says. gas, sometimes referred to as renewable gas. One of the
According to materials from a Dec. 7 Lane County Board problems, she says, is that there’s no such thing as renew-
of County Commissioners meeting that explored ways to cut able natural gas; it burns the same way as natural gas.
LANE COUNTY GOVERNMENT
down on Short Mountain’s greenhouse gas emissions, the Natural gas companies are trying to use methane-
IS REVIVING TALKS TO MAKE county reported that in 2019 it had a 55.1 percent recovery converted natural gas as a way to keep the fossil fuels
rate of recyclables, the highest in the state. The county is industry alive for a few more years, she says. There isn’t
RECYCLING MORE EFFICIENT
now aiming for a 63 percent recycling rate. enough methane in landfills to turn that into a viable fuel
AND CONVERT METHANE FROM
The county is currently requesting bids from manu- source, she adds, so she cautions against sending it to resi-
THE LANDFILL facturers, but the costs of such a recovery facility could dential users for cooking or heating. There are greener
range from $15 million to $40 million. Funding for upgrad- energy sources in Oregon, so “we shouldn’t be off in this
ing the county’s landfill processing could come from the boondoggle on how to get landfill gas into our kitchen.”
By Henry Houston
recently passed Modernizing Recycling Act, which puts The Monterey Regional Waste Management District
a fee on producers, Hurley says. (MRWMD) in California was the second organization in the
L
ane County’s waste could be its treasure. Lane County is also exploring the anaerobic digestion U.S. to try an anaerobic digestion facility, says its general
All it needs is the right facility at Short facility, which converts methane into natural gas provid- manager, Tim Flanagan. MRWMD serves a population
Mountain Landfill, near Goshen. ing energy for buildings, homes or transportation. similar to Lane County.
The landfill, which is the repository for Methane recovery isn’t new for Lane County. It’s been The agency’s anaerobic facility was a part of a pilot
everything from food waste to materials doing methane recovery since 1991 with Emerald People’s program that ran 2013 to 2019, and it used the natural gas
from the county’s several transfer stations, Utility District, Hurley says. In that agreement, the landfill to power the sewage plant next door. Building a permanent
is one of the county’s largest sources of has been collecting landfill gas, which is about half meth- anaerobic digestion facility for MRWMD will take years,
greenhouse gas emissions, according to the second ane, to power a landfill gas-to-energy facility. he says. The agency is planning construction by 2025.
phase of the county’s Climate Action Plan, released in Around 2010, Lane County was in the process of devel- MRWMD also has a materials recovery facility and
November 2021. oping a Renewable Energy Park that included a 2-megawatt worked with the Eugene-based waste system designer
To address emissions at Short Mountain, the county solar array, an anaerobic digester, upgrades to EPUD’s Bulk Handling Systems to build it, Flanagan says. The
is exploring a facility on the site that can keep recycling combustion engines and facilities to utilize waste heat facility sorts through raw garbage, separating waste from
and other materials from heading to the landfill and from landfill gas combustion, Hurley says. The county recyclables, like paper and plastic, he says.
contributing to the dump’s carbon footprint. Another didn’t get the program off its feet due to finances. But Lane County is considering working with BHS, but
part of that plan is to include an anaerobic facility at Lane County is still interested in developing some of Hurley says the county will talk with other companies to
Short Mountain that can convert methane at the land- those projects, he says. do its due diligence.
fill into natural gas. An anaerobic digestion facility would collect more Hurley says it’s too early in planning to disregard certain
These are expensive propositions, and Lane County methane than the current facilities at the landfill, accord- negotiations, such as selling the natural gas to NW Natural.
is still in early phases of exploring such facilities. An ing to the county’s Climate Action Plan. That methane If the county sold it to NW Natural, that could help bring
anaerobic digestion facility has seen success in Califor- could be converted to a fuel source that can be used for the company on board to help pay for the multi-million
nia’s Monterey County, however, converting methane transportation- or heat-related purposes, the plan says. dollar project, he says.
into natural gas — referred to as “renewable natural gas” There has been a biogas plant powered by food waste in The county is still in early stages of developing this
— leads to questions about how it’s used and whether it Lane County. In 2013, the private company JC-Biomethane facility, so it hasn’t spoken with NW Natural about this.
should be used by residential communities. opened a plant that accepted waste from households and There are other options for natural gas, too, Hurley
Throughout Lane County, a lot of recyclable materi- restaurants, but in 2016 it ran into trouble with paying its says. The county could use the landfill-converted natural
als and food waste are placed in garbage bins, says Dan property taxes, according to a 2016 Eugene Weekly inves- gas for LTD buses or garbage trucks.
Hurley, Lane County’s director of Public Works. Those tigation. In 2018, the multinational petroleum company These multi-million dollar facilities can’t replace indi-
recyclable materials don’t make it to Portland, where Lane Shell purchased the plant. vidual behavior, he says. A facility that can extract methane
County’s recyclable materials are taken, so they end up An anaerobic plant at Short Mountain could remove from food waste isn’t better for the environment than a
at the Short Mountain Landfill, he says. 400,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2040, the resident who composts their food at home, for example.
That then emits greenhouse gases. “The landfill is the county’s Climate Action Plan says. According to an EPA “That’s the easiest and best use of organics,” Hurley
largest emitter of greenhouse gas from county operations, calculator, removing that much carbon dioxide is equiv- adds. “But not everybody can do backyard compost.” ■
Obituaries for the Homeless
PLEASE HELP EW HONOR THE LIVES OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED
By EW Staff
A
s the new year kicks off with ice and snow and torrential 1. Ivory McCuen 14. Jimmy Clark 27. Jeremy D.
rain, the homeless people of Lane County struggle for 2. Kristi Schmidt 15. Anthony Pietrafitta 28. Kelsey Hope
shelter and survival. In addition to our news cover- 3. Hazel Dai 16. Kermit 29. Michael
age of this life and death issue, the writers of Eugene 4. Douglas James Hanson 17. Tucker 30. Leslie Shoemaker
Weekly will continue our project of chronicling the 5. Kim Repp 18. JJ 31. Tamara Hickling
lives of the unhoused people who die in Lane County. 6. Eugene Winters 19. Lane Davis 32. Cindy Chance
Below is a list, courtesy of Black Thistle Street 7. Davie Scott Hanes 20. Robert “Montana” Lepper 33. Shawn Martin
Aid, of the people known to have died in 2021. EW was only able to 8. Lisa Ann Fowler 21. Grant 34. Jimbo
write obituaries for the first 13 people, whose names are in bold type. 9. Deborah “Debbie” Plum 22. Irish Paul 35.Thomas Perkalis
If you have contact information for friends and family who might 10. Chuck Rintalin 23. Marcos 36. Sam
want to talk for an obituary for other people on the list, or informa- 11. Rodney Heckathorn. 24. Ron 37. Scott
tion on people who died but are not listed or, sadly, people who die in 12. Sarah Fallingwater 25. Mark Corbitt 38. Unknown man, who died of
2022, please email [email protected] or call 541-484-0519. 13. Shandee Franke 26. Jack Edwin Hill exposure at a bus stop on Hwy 99
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JAPANESE AMERICAN ARTIST SANDRA HONDA'S
'BROKEN PROMISES, BROKEN DREAMS'
NOW HEAR THIS
ARTIST KATHLEEN CAPRARIO COLLABORATES WITH THREE OREGON POETS TO INTERROGATE WHITE
PRIVILEGE AS PART OF THE MAUDE KERNS EXHIBIT SOCIAL BEING By Jenna Comstock
B
enjamin Gorman, a poet and high school English Carter McKenzie — for her upcoming work, which will be since 1995, Caprario has a well established, yet ever
teacher living in Independence, Oregon, points shown alongside the work of four other female artists in evolving, presence in Eugene’s arts community. After
to the immediacy of poetry as its source of the exhibit Social Being, opening at Maude Kerns Art her husband’s death by suicide in 2001, Caprario, who
strength. Detailing the process of collaborat- Center Jan. 14. had primarily worked in painting and textiles since her
ing over Zoom with Eugene artist Kathleen Gorman talks about how Caprario recognized that late teens and early 20s, stepped boldly into writing for
Caprario for the piece “Patterns of Privilege: their poetry and her textiles “can communicate with one the screen and dabbled in stand-up comedy. Her short
Now Hear This,” he recalls a line about poetry’s another in a way that will be beneficial to the reader of film Mourning After was shown at the Non-Juried Short
power that holds a permanent place in his mind. both kinds of texts.” Film Corner in Cannes, France, in 2014. No matter what
“It’s from a conversation with Kim Stafford. He points Caprario’s work interrogates her position of privilege as the medium, Caprario describes working in layers and
to how poetry responds to what is happening as it is a white woman in an effort to re-examine her own patterns making connections.
happening,” Gorman says of Stafford, Oregon’s former of communication and being without perpetuating what Caprario notes how in her early years as an artist, any
poet laureate, “unlike a novel that takes more time to put it is she interrogates. “Patterns of Privilege: Now Hear idea that floated into her head felt like fair game. “Now I
out after that initial spark.” This” displays the printed poems in the sequence Caprario am much more aware,” she says. Her recent and upcom-
The immediacy and strength of poetry is what pulled intends them to be read. Between them hang strips of ing work is about social justice. And she points out that
Caprario, primarily a visual artist, into collaboration white sheets depicting imagery evoked by the poems. it interrogates her position, rather than commenting on
with three Oregon poets — Gorman, Bobbie Calhoun and An adjunct instructor in art at Lane Community College an experience she has not had. “That’s what a colonizing
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which resonated most with her she rendered into physi-
MEI-LING LEE, A TAIWANESE-BORN MUSICIAN, COMPOSER AND PERFORMER, cal representations on her textiles.
IN 'THE LIGHTED WINDOWS' VIDEO INSTALLATION “From Bobbie’s there’s an image of hands reaching out,
and birds and tire tracks. For Ben’s there's sunscreen, the
people protesting and the farm workers. And Carter’s is
the bears. The poem that I can’t get out of my mind by her
references bears. It's so strong,” Caprario says.
Caprario first met McKenzie through Showing Up for
Racial Justice (SURJ), a national organization with the goal
of bringing white people into the fight for racial justice.
The poem Caprario is referring to is titled “Calling for his
Mother — in Memory of George Floyd.”
Collaborating with Caprario shifted McKenzie’s
perspective in the poem. It brought a greater aware-
ness of her own responsibility as a white person.
“When I started the poem, it came out of feeling a
sense of outrage and horror. I was really focused on the
revulsion at the officer, Derek Chauvin, who murdered
George Floyd,” McKenzie says.
But as she began talking with Caprario, she shifted
to looking closer at her own place in society and her own
culture does, and that is not what I want to do.” Writers, describes how collaborating with her and the biases.
She was inspired by existing work from Gorman, with other poets has truly been an ongoing conversation. “What happened when I was revising was the need to
whom she had worked with before on A Critical Conver- For this project, “she did not give us any sort of admit the ways that I’ve been part of this,” McKenzie says.
sation, an exhibit examining the intersections of art, race prescribed prompt” Calhoun says of the artist. The McKenzie describes the ways she had previously tuned
and privilege, that she produced in conjunction with the freedom Caprario gave the poets to write and revise their out systemic racism as damaging to everyone. “Because
nonprofit Eugene Contemporary Art last year. own work enhanced the project’s ability to communicate white supremacy dehumanizes everyone. It affects white
A Critical Conversation, which was part of Jordan with an audience. people differently — they have to do something to tune it
Schnitzer Museum of Art’s Black Lives Matter Artist Calhoun talks about how, throughout the collaboration, out. To tune out the truth of who’s suffering.”
Grant Program Exhibition, reinvigorated Caprario’s belief Caprario emphasized wanting audience members to be “I had been treating each shooting and each injustice
that “art can — and should — connect with folks on these able to place themselves within the work. Facilitating a as an individual horror. Not as part of a system, so I could
political and social levels.” conversational process between the artist and the poets, just go back to my life, like it had nothing to do with it,”
“With A Critical Conversation,” Gorman says, Caprario rather than an agenda for the project, was vital to that. McKenzie says. “As long as well-meaning white people
“wanted it to be clear that the work was about white “All four of us kind of approach the topic differently. think that racism has nothing to do with them, racism
people's responsibility.” There’s value in that.” will persist.”
The intent and process of this exhibit is driven by this Calhoun knew of Caprario’s work and the abstract
same intention, but Caprario talks about continuing to beauty she is able to produce in her visual art. “I trusted An Instrument for Change
push her own self reflection in an effort to communicate her to find that voice that would speak to her art. And
on a deeper level with her audience. As she was beginning then in turn to create new art out of what the three of us McKenzie talks about dismantling the idea that poetry
to visualize her process and open up the conversation with produced,” Calhoun says. and art should be separate from politics.
Gorman, Calhoun and McKenzie, she asked herself how This is the first exhibit that Calhoun and Caprario have “Poems ask questions. They engage people so that
she could extend the conversation at work with others collaborated on together, while McKenzie and Gorman their emotions and memories are involved.” McKenzie
and with herself. were both a part of A Critical Conversation. Each poet points to this kind of engagement as vital to communi-
“It needs to go back in,” Caprario explains of her work. points to the conversational form of this collaboration cating with an audience.
“I need to think about reflection more.” as a catalyst for their writing — and for their re-writing. As she looks ahead to the opening of Social Being,
Self-reflection was the first step, but bringing the poets With the existing work the poets brought to the project, Caprario says she looks forward to seeing how this is
into the conversation was what really pushed Caprario in they dove back into and pushed it to a new level. received. She is eager to see how audience members
this project. “It gave me more insight into what I was trying “It’s really exciting to see your work reflected in another identify with the work.
to do. It encouraged me to keep going,” Caprario says. artist’s work,” Gorman says. “And I felt confident knowing “Does it move people, can they place themselves within
her sensitivity and how she works with care on the subject.” the context of the work?” Caprario asks. “And what does
An Ongoing Conversation Caprario describes being moved by images in each that do for their understanding and how they perceive
of the writer’s poems. “Every word in the poem — if it’s themselves within their community?”
Calhoun, a poet who lives in Portland and met Caprario a good poem — every single word and how it’s phrased is Caprario describes art’s, particularly collaborative
through the nonprofit writers organization Willamette essential. There’s no waste,” Caprario says. The words art’s, function as a bridge between individual and struc-
tural change.
“Beauty can be a real instrument for change,” she
says. “And then you’ve got to have structural [change].”
Creating work from where they, as white individuals,
are located was vital for both artist and writers in convey-
ing white responsibility in this piece.
“It’s not Black people’s job to show us how to right
wrongs,” Caprario says. “This is a white problem. It involves
you, but it is more than you. And it’s not right.”
Caprario, McKenzie and Gorman will engage in a Zoom
discussion a week after Social Being’s opening. McKenzie
says they will talk about the role of art in communicating
on social and political issues, and will be happy to answer
questions about the poems and the collaboration process
for this piece.
Then the first Thursday of February, Caprario and the
four other artists who have work in Social Being — Sandra
Honda, Mei-ling Lee, Charly Swing and Kerry Weeks — will
host a Zoom discussion where they will dive into the rich
conversations that emerge from the socially engaged art.
“I want this to be an ongoing conversation,” Caprario
says. “The work doesn’t stop here.” ■
Social Being will be at Maude Kerns Art Center, 1910 E. 15h Avenue,
from Friday, Jan. 14, until Friday, Feb. 11. Suggested donation of $3/
person, $5/family. Zoom discussions will be held 6-7 pm Thursday,
KATHLEEN CAPRARIO'S COLLABORATION 'PATTERNS OF PRIVILEGE: NOW HEAR THIS' Jan. 20, and Thursday, Feb. 3. More information on gallery hours and
WITH OREGON POETS BENJAMIN GORMAN, BOBBIE CALHOUN AND CARTER MCKENZIE registration for zoom discussions at MKArtCenter.org.
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Weaving Demonstration w/ geneFoodNotBombs@gmail. sters and the Grateful via Zoom, 6:30pm, Eugene-
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at 5:30 pm, Jan. 13 at a Zoom event, and OSU’s week- Museum of Natural and at 4pm at Park Blocks, E. Llyi/bEruagrBy aobrb Yso. uFTRuEbEe. at bit. THEATER
long celebration of MLK is Jan. 17 through Jan. 21. C15utlhtu Arvael .H Inisctlourdye,d 1 6w8/0 g eEn. . 8fotuhn Atavien. s&. Oak St. next to MUSIC Waitress (musical), 1pm, Sil-
More information for it is at Diversity.OregonState. Admission. KIDS/FAMILY The Traceys, 6:30pm, vTaic Ckeotnsc esrtat rHta allt a$t2 H0u.5lt0 .Ctr.
edu. — Dan Buckwalter Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell, folk-bluegrass, The Friendly
Library Storytime in per-
President of Spelman Col- Gardens, 2758 Friendly St. MONDAY
son, 10:30am, Echo Hollow
lege, on Martin Luther King, No cover.
Pool & Sheldon Commu-
GENERAL gene Hotel, 222 E. Broad- Jr.’s legacy of leadership, nity Ctr. Pre-registration Onion Machine, 7pm, beer- JANUARY 17
way. 5:30-7:30pm. Register for required: bit.ly/EugStory- garden, 777 W. 8th Ave. No
ART EXHIBITS Small Treasures: Mezzo- Zoom link at LaneCC.edu. timesCal or call 541-682- cover. MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY
Adam Grosowsky: Every tints by Hamanishi Katsu- FREE. 5450. FREE. Kelly Kuo & Friends, cham- COMEDY
Now and Every Then (thru nRoyroih /e Ei t(tchhrinug Jsa bny. 1T5a),n Wakhait e MUSIC LITERARY ber music, 7:30pm, Wildish Stand-Up Open Mic, 8pm,
Jan. 15), Karin Clarke Gal- Gerry & Hamilton, jazz, Theater, 630 Main St, Spfd. Slice Pizzeria and Bar, 325
lery, 760 Willamette St. Lotus Gallery, 767 Willa- 6pm, Territorial Vineyards, Powell's Books Presents: $20-40 Blair Blvd. FREE.
mette St. Ken Babbs (author of
Exhibition of the painter Heather Jacks at Karin 907 W. 3rd Ave. No cover. Cronies, A Burlesque:
Tallafe (thru Jan. 15), Eu- Clarke at the Gordon (thru Adventures with Ken Kesey,
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